Stomach Cramp, Diarrhea, sweating , light headedness and fainting

[tomski]

I have experienced on 4 occasions in the last 6 years a rather weird Diarrhoea attack which really is painful and scary. Here is a description of what occurs.

1. Sudden abdominal pain which increases in intensity over a short time. The same sensation one might get when they are about to get Diarrhoea.

2. I go to the toilet and try excreting whatever wants to come out. However after about a minute of sitting there with nothing coming out I suddenly few light headed and am starting to get a dizzy spell like I am about to faint and my breathing weakens.

3. This borderline fainting sensation lasts for about another minute before I break out into a sudden sweat all over my body. Within a few seconds I have sweat literally pouring out of me, my clothes are wet as if I ran a marathon or something.

4. After a minute of sweating I suddenly feel something coming out of my rear end. I try to squeeze it out and only a hard stool comes out.

5. The sweating stops and the stomach cramp subsides. I think everything is over and I clean up. I walk out of the toilet and in about 2 minutes time the stomach cramp and the fainting sensation comes back (I've fainted only once to date from this and was out for about 15-20 minutes).

6. When I get back to the toilet I have a really violent Diarrhoea episode in pure liquid state. It takes a few minutes to subside and once I

[diegs_mcg]

Hi,

Wow, reading all of these posts has been informative...I too, was diagnosed w/ IBS, vasovagal syncope but not Hasimoto hypothyroidism (was tested last year w/ normal levels).  And I completely disagree w/ "it's nothing to worry about."  

I am a single mother of a young child & passing out is not cool at all.  I have scraped my face, broken my nose and nearly poked my eye out from fainting and hitting a bathroom cabinet drawer.

I am still searching for remedies.  Stress completely exacerbates all digestion issues and I can not "stomach" any mixed drinks, have a terrible reaction. I agree, high fructose corn syrup is a culprit.  Every time I have celebrated a holiday w/ more than 2 mixed drinks and combined meat or poultry, it's a very bad reaction.

Thank you to all who have posted!  

I hope all have had some success w/ different remedies - can't imagine being the one to watch.  My friends and family have witnessed "episodes" and it's awful.  You really do think your friend is dying! But we're okay in minutes - developed a mantra and stomach massage but it doesn't always work.

[DanielK8888]

It's a twelve year old thread, but I'm so happy (2021) to finally come across people who have exact the same symptoms. Thank you all for your answers!
I live with this condition since I'm ten years old, for thirty years now. Have it also 2-5 times a year. No doctor or somebody else (not even the mighty online world) could tell me what that condition is.
Everytime I feel like dying, and it's seems nobody believes me the intensity of such an attack. It's not even pain...it's pure agony....hard to describe......cannot breath, sweating....cramps.... blood pressure drops.....and sometimes I get squeezed into fainting.

But.....dear friends...... obliviously I'm not a doctor and I don't know what that condition is, 3 years ago after an attack so violently I had  to try to self medicate myself.
I always had the feeling that bad stuff in the guts has to come out, hence the dhiarria attack. So I was instinctively afraid of taking any anti dhiarria medication. But one day when a attack started I took the decision to take 2 pills of Imodium (Loperamid) and it was the best decision I made. I found out that all the resulting symptoms of sweating, blood pressure drops, breathing problems, fainting, came from the colic spasms, means the overworking of the gut peristaltic (gut movement to squeeze and liquify). All what Loperamid does is stopping the gut movements for a few hours. And that's the immediate remedy for all the symptoms (not the cause obviously). Wherever I go I always have Loperamid with me....always. Whenever you feel the slightest start of these typical gut feelings immediately take a pill or two! It's stops the progression in 3-10 min. I prevented so many of these attacks in the last three years, for me it really works and the relieve from fear and pain is so great that I just could not not tell people about it. The quicker you take it ( even after first intuition) the more pain and agony you could save yourself. Sometimes I take it as a provilactic for train plane bus travels ect. situations where I know I would cause big trouble and probably ambulance because I could in that attack not explain to anybody to just leave me alone and not touch me slouching on the toilet seat.

It works so well this Loperamid and therefore want to finally share it with fellow sufferers.
I hope it can help you to lose some fear over imminant attacks.

I wish you all the best.....may you find relieve.

Daniel

[DanielK8888]

It's a twelve year old thread, but I'm so happy (2021) to finally come across people who have exact the same symptoms. Thank you all for your answers!
I live with this condition since I'm ten years old, for thirty years now. Have it also 2-5 times a year. No doctor or somebody else (not even the mighty online world) could tell me what that condition is.
Everytime I feel like dying, and it's seems nobody believes me the intensity of such an attack. It's not even pain...it's pure agony....hard to describe......cannot breath, sweating....cramps.... blood pressure drops.....and sometimes I get squeezed into fainting.

But.....dear friends...... obliviously I'm not a doctor and I don't know what that condition is, 3 years ago after an attack so violently I had  to try to self medicate myself.
I always had the feeling that bad stuff in the guts has to come out, hence the dhiarria attack. So I was instinctively afraid of taking any anti dhiarria medication. But one day when a attack started I took the decision to take 2 pills of Imodium (Loperamid) and it was the best decision I made. I found out that all the resulting symptoms of sweating, blood pressure drops, breathing problems, fainting, came from the colic spasms, means the overworking of the gut peristaltic (gut movement to squeeze and liquify). All what Loperamid does is stopping the gut movements for a few hours. And that's the immediate remedy for all the symptoms (not the cause obviously). Wherever I go I always have Loperamid with me....always. Whenever you feel the slightest start of these typical gut feelings immediately take a pill or two! It's stops the progression in 3-10 min. I prevented so many of these attacks in the last three years, for me it really works and the relieve from fear and pain is so great that I just could not not tell people about it. The quicker you take it ( even after first intuition) the more pain and agony you could save yourself. Sometimes I take it as a provilactic for train plane bus travels ect. situations where I know I would cause big trouble and probably ambulance because I could in that attack not explain to anybody to just leave me alone and not touch me slouching on the toilet seat.

It works so well this Loperamid and therefore want to finally share it with fellow sufferers.
I hope it can help you to lose some fear over imminant attacks.

I wish you all the best.....may you find relieve.

Daniel

[Dnyce666]

Ok I solved the issue, at least with me and some other people on here. First person I noticed with this theory was lalala1010 on page 90.

So I so started having similar issues as 95% of you about 8 years ago and it lasted for 4-5 years, had them about 6-7 times, usually after I ordered food(like some people indicated).

I woke up this morning with same symptoms, have not had them in 3-4 years. I thought I was about to die, plus I was alone this time.
I found this thread and started reading. After one episode, I know it was food related since I ate more than normal yesterday afternoon. But thought it was a spice, or maybe ice cream I had.
Then I remembered that I started taking brain supplements 10 days that had Ginko Biloba , and my girl friend told me her friend told her that they work but caused constipation. I did notice some constipation last week but wasn't anything serious. Then I remembered 8 years ago I got prescribed oxycodone 30mg and that cause constipation (opiate constipation), and once in a while I took stool softeners, but only a few times, and yes it helped. Now I think back and every time during the time I was on pain killers and ate alot, usually when ordered out I would get these painful episodes.
3 hours ago I had 1 episode, which was bad, but I couldn't go(no BM), even though I needed to. After reading lalala1010 post I decided to walk(while I can) and get laxatives from corner Walgreens that's open 24 hours(TG). Returned,Put one in, 15 min later had alot of BM and I felt great.

My theory is, people that get constipated regularly , check your meds and supplements. Eat lots of fiber, fish oil and other things that work against constipation.
If you get constipation once in a while have a laxative available, plus if you eat alot and hadn't had any BM in 24 hours or longer I would take stool softener after your meal.
I'm not a Dr, but I think what happens is when we don't have any BM in a while then eat usually more than normal (like I did yesterday), your processed food gets stuck in your intestines, then after hours , usually during the night your digestive system goes into some panic mode. That's why you feel nasua, and other symptoms, then your intestines starts to break down this hard stool and you get cramps, it will keep doing this until your stool is very soft, and even water like (diarrhea) . Notice alot if people said a hard stool will followed by diarrhea (like mine in the past).
Now if I didn't put that laxative in, I would be in that bathroom for 3-5 hours. I basically helped to unclog what was stuck, and I eliminated hours of pain.

Don't get me wrong, alot of times you will get food poisoning or food allergy and have similar symptoms, except usually you would get diarrhea right away.

I hope this helped. I'm very relieved I was able to find a cure for myself. I thought I was allergic to Tyme spice.

[Alishah58]

I just want to say that I experience this also. Twice so far this year. Don't know what to do, but glad/sad I'm not alone.

[JoshB33]

Does this only happen at night for everyone? Cause thats the only time it happens to me. But it does seem to build up through the day and hits me all at once. Either Im still awake or it will violently wake me up and then I rush to the bathroom and end up passing out. But when I come to I feel like am renewed.

[YoungGun8140]

No this happened to me just yesterday while I was at a movie theatre at 10:00AM!  My stomach began to tighten as if I had to poop badly!  I made my way to the restroom somewhat hunched over due to the pain in my lower abdomen, as I sat on the toilet I had very loose stool but not completely watery.  My stomach would tighten in nearly unbearable excruciating pain and I broke out in a massive sweat all the while feeling extremely faint and nauseas. I must say this is the worst feeling ever as there seems to be nothing to do but go through it.